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Friday, June 22, 2018

Catch a Kitten by the Toe (Feline Friday) and Friendly Fill-Ins

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Feline Friday was started by Steve, The Burnt Food Dude, and i'm going to believe it's because he likes cats.

He has handed hosting duties off to Sandee, of Comedy Plus, and it's simple to join, just follow the link to Sandee's page for the rules and the code.

Last Wednesday (meaning over a week ago, not day before yesterday), Ms. Annie from the shelter went to the local "pound" to pull out cats that are adoptable and bring them to our facility.

While she was there, a worker handed her a big laundry basket with, get this, 12 bottle feed kittens! A whole dozen, from two litters but born within a couple of days of each other.

Nine of them were orange tabbies, all boys; the girls were a brown tabby, a tortoiseshell, and a "tabico" (a tabby with some calico markings).

Ms. Annie divided them between three foster homes, giving each three orange boys and one girl. One of the fosters has had to leave town this weekend for a funeral, and so i have taken hers until Sunday when she comes back.

It's not easy getting pictures of kittens that are only about 2 weeks old:

My nicknames for them are Eenie, Meenie, Miney, and Maureen.

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Friendly Fill-Ins are easy to do. There are four statements: the first two statements are provided by Ellen of 15AndMeowing, and the final two are offered by the new cohost of the Fill-Ins, Lorianne The Menagerie Mom of Four-Legged Furballs. They try to make sure the statements will be fun to both answer and share. The linky will be posted at or about 12:00am on Friday. Please head over to one of their sites, link up, and share your thoughts!

Here are this week's statements with my responses underlined:

1. My favorite scent is ________________.

2. I hope to __________________ this weekend.

3. _________ is music to my ears.

4. Home is where _________.

1. My favorite scent is sweet olive, with jasmine and gardenia running a close second.

2. I hope to find my sanity hiding around here somewhere this weekend, although i am not holding my breath.

3. On the order of “no news is good news,” not hearing that any of my cars need repair is music to my ears. (No, i am not hearing that all of my cars are in good shape right now, i am hearing the "ka-ching" as dollar signs add up again since Jalopy has a serious gas leak.)

4. Home is where i get to take my work clothes off and relax.

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Today is:

Anti-Fascist Resistance Day -- Croatia

Antiques on the Bay -- St. Ignace, MI, US (annual show for antique and classic cars at least 25 years old or older; through tomorrow)

Bouphoria -- Ancient Greek Calendar (sacrifice of an ox to symbolize social order dissolving and being restored; date approximate)

Dairy Queen Day -- the first Dairy Queen® opened this day in 1940 in Joliet, Illinois

Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Great Patriotic War -- Belarus

Elfin Music Festival -- Fairy Calendar

Fes Musiques Sacrees du Monde -- Fez, Morocco (Fez Festival of World Sacred Music, with all types of sacred music featured, from Spanish gypsy laments to Sufi chanting and everything between; through the 30th)

Festival of 1 Lithe -- Hobbit Calendar

Grantsville Days -- Grantsville, MD, US (annual homecoming weekend, with fun for all; through Sunday)

Kaposia Days -- South St. Paul, MN, US (Kaposia, or "Little Crows Village," was a seasonal American Indian settlement within the city limits of what is now St. Paul, MN, and a family oriented city festival is now held paying tribute to the orignal name; through Sunday)

Little Bighorn Days -- Hardin, MT, US (celebrating the life and legends of the American West, with battle reenactments at the "Custer's Last Stand" battle site this weekend; through Sunday)

Soap Microphone Day -- grab your soap in the shower and pretend you are on stage! (promise i won't tell)

St. Nicetas' Day (Patron of Romania)

St. Thomas More's Day (Patron of adopted children, civil servants, difficult marriages, large families, lawyers, politicians/politicos/statesmen, step-parents, widowers; Arlington, VA; Ateneo de Manila Law School; Pensacola-Tallahassee, FL; University of Malta; University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Arts and Letters)

Stupid Guy Thing Day -- included under protest; "guy things" aren't necessarily stupid, it should just be Guy Thing Day; sponsored by Wellcat Holidays, who want all women to just not count anything against guys today, but chalk it up to being a Stupid Guy Thing

Ugliest Dog Day -- actual day, during the Sonoma-Marin Fair that began two days ago, of the 2018 World's Ugliest Dog® Contest; will Martha, last year's winner, keep her title?

Vikingespil Frederikssund (Viking Festival) -- Frederikssund, Denmark (the most famous Viking cultural event in Denmark, with two weeks of plays based on Danish Viking legends and a three day festival this weekend, as well as two markets and a Viking camp recreation)

Anniversary Today:

Harry Houdini marries Wilhelmina Beatrice "Bess" Rahner, 1894

Birthdays Today:

Eric Stretch, 1980

Donald Faison, 1974

Carson Daly, 1973

Mary Lynn Rajskub, 1971

Kurt Warner, 1971

Amy Brennenman, 1964

Dan Brown, 1964

Randy Couture, 1963

Tracy Pollan, 1960

Freddie Prinze, 1954

Cyndi Lauper, 1953

Todd Rundgren, 1948

Meryl Streep, 1949

Lindsay Wagner, 1949

Pete Maravich, 1947

Klaus Maria Brandauer, 1944

Ed Bradley, 1941

Michael Lerner, 1941

Kris Kristofferson, 1936

William Ralph "Bill" Blass, 1922

Joseph Papp, 1921

Billy Wilder, 1906

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1906

John Dillinger, 1903

Captain George Vancouver, 1757

Debuting/Premiering Today:

The Rescuers(Animated film), 1977

Lady and the Tramp(Animated film), 1955

Today in History:

Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom, BC217

Oh my goodness, the kittens are precious! Over the past few years, my family and I have rescued (and adopted) a number of very young kittens that required bottle feeding. I love bottle feeding kittens and helping them grow. There is something so rewarding about that.

And thank you for joining in on the Friendly Fill-Ins! I'm right there with you on #2! My sanity has to be hiding out around here somewhere. At least, I hope it is. And I know exactly what you mean with #4, too. As soon as I get home from work, it's time for sweatpants, a T-shirt, and a date with Netflix. Have a beautiful day!

Thank you for sharing your Friday fill-ins; you probably already know it, but you are far from alone when it comes to number three and four. And what adorable little kittens these are! We hope they all find loving homes.

How kind of you to help these cuties. I am glad they were rescued from the pound. Thank you for participating in the fill-ins, great answers. Iam sorry you are having car issues, they are always expensive :( Have a nice weekend! XO

Oh my word. So many needy kittens and so few people to care for them. I've been spending a lot of time watching the Tiny Kittens live cam and they're swamped all the time.

There is one gorgeous kitty star, Aura, born with a cleft palate, who within the last two days has learned to drink and eat on her own. She was hand-fed one kibble at a time and water through a syringe. Only tender love and care got that kitty though her disability. Now she's fiesty and aura-dorable.

Oh squeee! Those kittens are so cute! My brother and I were foster kittens. We often see our Humans searching for their sanity...so far they're still looking.Purrs & Head Bonks,Oliver & The Tribe of Five